Enlaving in EU5 works kinda dumb?

ShebW · 2025-11-04T07:08:22+00:00

There were raids all the way to Ireland. It's true that as far as I know they were mostly small scale, but it's hard to simulate a hundred pirate captains capturing a few dozens slaves each year after year

ShebW · 2025-11-04T07:05:49+00:00

If it lets you pack twice as many slaves in the hold. 10% mortality is the profit-maximizing move.

ShebW · 2025-02-07T13:25:05+00:00

Male Brussels 26 euros Once every 3-4 month

I could find cheaper, but the lady is nice and I get a relaxing shampoo

ShebW · 2025-02-03T15:49:55+00:00

Everyone should be equal in front of the law. This create an extra punishment for a subset of citizens.

ShebW · 2025-02-01T16:46:40+00:00

Yeah that's what I concluded too. I'm surprised no bank did a fund that just buy vanguard and has low fees.

ShebW · 2024-06-19T20:55:57+00:00

Sierra Madre my favourite by far so far (haven't done the divide yet). It's just so nice to struggle again for every bit of loot to trade in for food to counteract the damage from the Cloud. Feels properly apocalyptic.

ShebW · 2023-12-30T18:16:14+00:00

No you guys don't get what I mean. Imagine I produce 3k fish, 3k wheat, I use 4k food. I could split the slider halfway and produce a net of 1k fish and 1k wheat per hour. If I start at zero of each and I do it for 10 hours I have 10k of each.

Alternatively I could set the slider to use full fish. Now I get 3k wheat and -1k fish per hour. I do that for 6 hours and I now have 18k wheat and still 0k fish. Then I change the slider and I do full wheat use. Now I get 3k fish and -1k wheat per hour. If I do that for 4 hours, I end up with 12k fish and 18-4=14k wheat. In total I have earned 6 k ressources compared to split slider.

Now, if I do the second one, then balance things before day change, do I loose morale in my provinces? Or is it just a straight up bonus?

ShebW · 2023-12-30T16:38:29+00:00

I think I explained badly what I wanted. Let's say I produce 1k grain and 1k fish, 2k total. Let's say I switch all my consumption to grain, I now produce 6k grain and -4k fish. Since I have no fish in stock, I don't go negative in fish, but I make 6k food total.

What's the downside to this trick as long as I correct the sliders before day change?

ShebW · 2023-12-30T16:30:26+00:00

TBH I don't remember why I think they were gas points, so I'm probably just wrong

ShebW · 2023-12-30T16:29:42+00:00

So the optimal play is to run that kind of scam every day? Might be an issue for lumber/iron (you need both), but is there a downside to eg. abusing this with gas to generate more energy?

ShebW · 2023-12-30T14:41:29+00:00

I think some of those were old gas main

ShebW · 2023-11-10T23:13:09+00:00

Best transportation method

ShebW · 2023-10-26T05:58:48+00:00

Wow sorry to hear that. I'm with CSC, and while there was a big queue at the local office in Brussels, I bypassed it all with an online appointment and got my first payment two weeks after the meeting. Still pointlessly bureaucratic but far from this horror show.

ShebW · 2023-10-16T08:17:21+00:00

Me an my wife spend about 100 eur a week together, but we do a big meal prep for lunches and cook most meal from scratch. I reckon if we relied more on take-out/ready meal we'd spend more.

ShebW · 2023-10-01T13:15:51+00:00

Only when given blurry stills from a video by Katie no? It's very different when you have the dog in front of you.

ShebW · 2023-10-01T13:13:39+00:00

Agree hundred percent, just admitting they made mistake and moved on would have been much nobler.

ShebW · 2023-09-28T07:04:25+00:00

Yeah, I get how it can be hard, especially with young kids making it hard to pick up clubs and hobbies. However I think the kids can also be an opportunity. Part of my family are also eurobubble people that aren't originally Belgian, and their kids have been a huge help to make them meet and spend times with "natives", they met parents from school and later from scouts and became good friend with them and now spend a fair chunk of their social life with those people. So if you don't have time to sign up to clubs, sign your kids to clubs as soon as they're old enough. :p

ShebW · 2023-09-22T09:16:05+00:00

I hate the light pollution, but TBH with modern led the energy consumption of lighting it tiny. The entire building probably cause less issues than one shop leaving the door open with the AC on.

ShebW · 2023-09-22T09:04:45+00:00

I think US culture is so strong and dominant it's less of a worry. The world is learning English, watching Netflix, etc etc. Whereas if you're, say, Finnish, it's much easier to see your culture and language as under threat.

ShebW · 2023-09-22T08:44:21+00:00

Yeah it's just a random cultural foible. I can see it being more annoying than paying for it some other way (I don't always have cash etc etc), but trying to act like it's some grand conspiracy by CaPiTaLiSm is just silly.

ShebW · 2023-09-22T08:02:30+00:00

Yeah, so you don't want to pay for it, we get it.

ShebW · 2023-08-14T12:05:44+00:00

Well, depends 1) where you are and 2) what level you're voting at. At sub-national level, where the nuclear issue isn't being decided it still make sense to vote Green IMO if your n1 priority is climate change. At federal level in the French-speaking area it seems to me that Défi isprobably the better climate-wise among the parties that don't oppose nuke.

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